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lane

Pronunciation: /leɪn/

The English word “lane” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
  2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
  3. A narrow road, as in the country.
  4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
  5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
  6. A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
  7. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
  8. A course designated for ships or aircraft.
  9. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
  10. An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
  11. Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
  12. A single serial data path in the PCI Express standard.
  13. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
  14. The home stretch.

Etymology

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a…

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